I've added the following in my web.xml:

<ejb-ref>
        <ejb-ref-name>ejb/userManagerBean</ejb-ref-name>
        <ejb-ref-type>Session</ejb-ref-type>
        <home>gha.ywk.name.entry.ejb.usermanager.UserManagerHome</home>
        <remote>what should go here??</remote>
</ejb-ref>

The following java code is giving me NamingException:

public UserManager getUserManager () throws HUDException {
    String ROLE_JNDI_NAME = "ejb/userManagerBean";
    try {
        Properties props = System.getProperties();
        Context ctx = new InitialContext(props);
        UserManagerHome userHome = (UserManagerHome) ctx.lookup(ROLE_JNDI_NAME);
        UserManager userManager = userHome.create();
        WASSSecurity user = userManager.getUserProfile("user101", null);
        return userManager;
    } catch (NamingException e) {
        log.error("Error Occured while getting EJB UserManager" + e);
        return null;
    } catch (RemoteException ex) {
        log.error("Error Occured while getting EJB UserManager" + ex);
        return null;
    } catch (CreateException ex) {
        log.error("Error Occured while getting EJB UserManager" + ex);
        return null;
    }
}

The code is used inside the container. By that I mean that the .WAR is deployed on the server (Sun Application Server).

StackTrace (after jsight's suggestion):

>Exception occurred in target VM: com.sun.enterprise.naming.java.javaURLContext.<init>(Ljava/util/Hashtable;Lcom/sun/enterprise/naming/NamingManagerImpl;)V 
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.sun.enterprise.naming.java.javaURLContext.<init>(Ljava/util/Hashtable;Lcom/sun/enterprise/naming/NamingManagerImpl;)V
 at com.sun.enterprise.naming.java.javaURLContextFactory.getObjectInstance(javaURLContextFactory.java:32)
 at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getURLObject(NamingManager.java:584)
 at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getURLContext(NamingManager.java:533)
 at javax.naming.InitialContext.getURLOrDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:279)
 at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:351)
 at gov.hud.pih.eiv.web.EjbClient.EjbClient.getUserManager(EjbClient.java:34)